I have always enjoyed posting on my blog, but this is certainly not the kind of post I've ever looked forward to doing. I am sorry I haven't been able to keep in touch and return phone calls, so I will try to keep everyone up-to-date on here as much as possible. I know most of you have heard about our situation and I want to first say thank you for your prayers already.
We don't know all the details but I will give you the information that we have as of right now. Last week, John started complaining about some pain in his lower abdomen and thought he had another hernia. We scheduled an appt. with the urologist here in town for Tuesday morning thinking we would find out if it was a hernia and be out of there. Unfortunately, that is not the news we got. The doctor did an examine on John and then did an ultrasound there in the office. He told us things did not look good and that he was sure it was a tumor of some kind. He did bloodwork and scheduled us to come back that Friday to get the results. We went back Friday, and from the bloodwork, we found that he did have a tumor and that it is malignant. He told us it was definitely testicular cancer. We are going to see another doctor in Dothan tomorrow morning for a second opinion. We are leaving this afternoon to go on over to Dothan and stay the night. Our sweet little man is with his Nan and Paw and his aunts, so he is in good hands and having a ball I'm sure! We hope and pray he will schedule surgery as soon as possible and we can find out some details after that. They will do a pathology report on the tumor and be able to tell us which kind of testicular cancer it is and what we are looking at as far as treatments.
Our prayer right now is that the cancer is confined to the one place and that surgery will take care of it. We know God is in control of all things and that He able to do abundantly more than we can ask or think {"Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us". Ephesians 3:20}. John and I both can already see God's hand in this situation. It is amazing how quickly life changes!!! Literally in minutes! We will never be the same two people again! I am confident God has BIG plans in store for us and that He is going to use us in MIGHTY ways!
We cannot explain to you all how thankful we are to have family and friends who are praying for us and who we know love and care for us!!! It is tremendously comforting to know that people are lifting us up in prayer!
Our specific prayer requests right now are:
1. Please PRAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2. Pray that God is merciful and will HEAL John completely.
3. Pray that the doctors are compassionate and truly care.
4. Pray that we will not be overwhelmed by all the information and God will give us wisdom to make the right decisions.
5. Pray for us to have strength and peace that passes all understanding!!! Philippians 4:7

WE LOVE YOU!!!

Christmas 2008

I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas! We had a wonderful time with John Luke this year. He seemed to be much more interested and excited about all his presents!
And we enjoyed visiting with family! At this age, the company of your family is more enjoyable than what you have under the tree!
I know there are duplicates on the slideshow, but I just copied them all...it's much quicker! I'm excited to see everyone else's sweet pictures!

My silly little man "posing" for me for the first time in his life! {In a much better outfit than the last!!!}

Photo Challenge

Hey LeeAnne! I have just now found the "photo challenge"! So here is my fourth picture in my fourth album: My lovely sister Amy posing as usual...

What in the World...

is my child doing?

This Christmas I have been dragging behind on everything! I love to do Christmas cards, and I thought I had gotten a head start on them this year, but it turned out that I was stressing trying to get just the right card, with just the right picture, with just the right pose {What was I thinking? We're working with John Luke here!} But anyway, we got them done {Thanks to Lyndsay!!!!} Here are a few I took trying to figure something out!!!!!!!!!!!!

He looks like a little baby in this one...




Well, we finally have a Christmas tree! It's pretty sad that we are just now putting up the tree with only 10 days left before Christmas!!! I told you I was running behind on everything!!
Our "tree story" usually sounds the same every year. And this year was no exception. After John chopped and chopped and mistreated the poor tree, he finally got it rigged enough to go in the tree stand. {This drama happens every year...John gets sooooo mad at the Christmas tree because it is never the right size or there is always some adjustments that have to be made and it seems that those adjustments are never simple! So he is usually out in the yard for several hours slinging the tree around and mumbling or yelling about how the stupid tree is not going to fit into the stupid tree stand {everything is stupid} and that it is not going to work and we just need to go buy an artificial tree and be DONE with it!!!!!!! I usually just stand at the window and watch, laughing the entire time! He finally will come to the door and say calmly, "Will this work?" And I say, "Yes, let's just get it in here before you have a heartattack!" He is much more calm and easy-going when it comes to the decorating part. So he and I decorated it Sunday night. As I said, finally {thank the Lord}, here is our tree...

And here is a goofy little boy that lives around here making his mama crazy trying to get a picture in front of the Christmas tree!




Merry Christmas Y'all!!!

Big Brother!

This sweet little munchkin is going to be a BIG BROTHER!

We have another precious blessing on the way! John and I went for an ultrasound earlier this week and everything looks and sounds perfect! The baby is due July 12th. I still can't get my scanner working, therefore it's a very fuzzy picture. Sorry!

We are looking forward to meeting this little one and loving he or she like crazy! I think John Luke will be an awesome big brother!! We shall see!!! Have a great night!